Hello! I'm officially going to continue this story, don't expect a new chapter every week, I'm in college and sometimes I'm very busy. I've also moved the story to M, for language and who knows what else is to come.

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Disclaimer: I don't own GMW or any of its characters.


ROCKY START. CHAPTER 2.


Seconds after pressing the doorbell, she answered the door. I looked down to contemplate every inch of her. Her long, pale legs that went up to a short skirt that covered just enough, attached to a black top that left her shoulders uncovered and molded her figure in the right places, golden strands of hair fell to her sides. Was she wearing that on purpose? She looked at me, our eyes connected and I froze right there, it felt like the ground was pulling my feet, her blue marbles were beautiful and hypnotizing. I saw my girlfriend in front of me, like we hadn't aged one single day, then I noticed a sudden change in her eyes, it was faint but there, her stare hardened and I felt ashamed, I couldn't see her anymore.

"Hi..." I finally brought myself to say, she was still looking at me.

"Hi..." she said, gaining my attention again, her voice felt like lightning in my body and for a second, just for a second I thought about lifting her in my arms and kissing her until we were craving for air, but that thought disappeared when she moved to one side of the frame "umm... you should come in."


He passed next to me, my body tensed when I smelled his cologne. I shut the door after him and led the way to the party. Farkle was in the center unwrapping Zay's gift, several boxes were scattered in the floor, Zay had a grin in his face and Riley was just as amused. When I came in with Lucas behind me, everyone in the room shifted their gaze towards us. When the birthday boy finally saw us he dropped the now smaller box on the coffee table and stood up to greet us.

"Lucas!" He came jogging, Lucas had put the ice bag on the floor and the two hugged like they hadn't seen each other in months "it's so good to have you here, thanks for coming!"

"All for you man" Lucas said grinning, with that beautiful and honest smile he had. "Here, I got you this". Farkle took the small box from him and opened it, inside was a silver watch, it looked like it was an old model, it wasn't a normal watch it had something different but I didn't know what it was.

"Is this what I think it is?" Farkle asked with a gleam in his eyes.

"Yep, I looked in every antique shop in New York for it, but I finally found it..." He was going to say something else, but Farkle interrupted to give his best friend another hug. Lucas patted his back "well, I'm glad you like it."

"Wait, I don't understand, what is that?" I had to ask Farkle for an explanation.

"This is a Silverstar Watch, a New York company made 200 of these back in 1989..."

"They function with magnets so wherever you go it always has the right time..." Lucas finished explaining very proud and excited, looking at me, he then cleaned his throat and looked away and so did I. Riley came to my rescue almost immediately, she said hello to Lucas and grabbed Farkle by the arm. Zay came by a moment later.

Farkle looked around him "This is the best gift you could all have given me, to be here with all of you" I could feel Lucas's eyes on me, but I fought the urge to look back. "Thanks, guys" he finished.

"Awwwwwwwwww" said Riley, planting a kiss in Farkle's cheek. "Come on, you have to finish opening Zay's present"

"Oh, yeah" they both turned around and headed to the couch in front of the table with the yellow box over it. "Lucas, are you coming?"

"Yes, I'm going to put this in the fridge before it melts" and with that he walked away from the living room, taking the giant ice pack with him.


I knew this place like my own house, so getting to the kitchen was no problem, I opened the freezer and stuck the ice bag in an empty place.

"Hi Lucas" I heard someone said behind me. I jumped and turned around to see Maya's mom sitting in the counter reading some magazine. "Oh, I'm so sorry, that's the second time I've done that today."

"It's fine, you just caught me by surprise Ms. Hart" she stood up from the stool and hugged me tight.

"You look great, I hadn't seen you since the hospital. How are you?"

"I'm good, I'm good, I do therapy three times a week and I should finish this month." She was smiling, but her eyes were concerned.

"I'm glad, now return to the party before Farkle starts looking for you everywhere" she gently patted my back.

When I was passing through the kitchen door I suddenly stopped. Feeling an urge to ask her. "How is she?" escaped from my mouth, she returned her gaze to me and studied it calmly.

"It will take time" was the only thing she said before returning to her task. I nodded and left the kitchen.

Farkle and Riley were struggling to open one of the boxes that was wrapped in plastic, a mess surrounded them, Zay was watching the two of them with a very happy look in his face talking with Maya. This was the thing I dreaded the most, what was I supposed to do now, I couldn't just go and pretend we were still the same eight graders who sat in Topanga's. We were a broken group and it was my fault. I sat on the chair next to the couch Riley and Farkle were sited on.


I looked at him, sitting across from me, a tension settled between us, oblivious to the rest of the group.

"Oh! I got it, I got it!" Riley screamed, she had an envelope in her hand as she raised it over her head. She delivered the envelope to Farkle and he took two tickets out of it.

"Tickets for Pippin!" Farkle started laughing.

"Wait!" Riley said "all that trouble for a couple of tickets?" Zay let out a vulgar laugh that made everyone join in.

As more people filled the house, the music and noise became louder. Lucas had been careful to keep his distance, but I caught him staring at me a few times.

"How are you holding, it hasn't been that bad has it?" Riley asked me, resting her hands on my shoulder.

"No... It's just weird trying to act like nothing happened."

"But Maya, something did happen, if you pretend like it didn't you won't move on." I stayed silent looking at Lucas on the other side of the room. "You can't hate him forever."

"I don't."

"What?" she asked, turning her head towards me.

"I don't hate him, and that is why this is so difficult, it would be so much easier to hate him and ignore him forever, but I can't."

She was cut by Farkle who came and joined Riley's side, Zay and Lucas followed behind him. Riley gave me one of her glances, the one that meant 'Think about what I said' or maybe it said 'We will talk about this later' or maybe both.

"Guys, can you help me in the kitchen" my mom said from the door. We all walked to the kitchen, several foil platters were set on the counter, filled with the food Riley had brought. "I need you to take these outside, I will be leaving soon." One by one Zay, Riley and Farkle grabbed a platter each and left the kitchen. "Honey can you put the chips on the big bowl? Oh, and Lucas can you cut these limes in slices?" Lucas grabbed a knife and started to cut them up.

I looked up to the drawers thinking where we kept the big bowl, I opened the bottom one but no sign of the bowl could be seen. Damn it, it most be in the top one. I reached for the handle with my fingertips, barely reaching it, but there it was, the big flowered bowl my mom loved.


I could hear her heels clicking on the floor and I smiled to myself knowing she couldn't get to the top cabinet, she sighed in frustration, but I knew her far too well, she was too proud to ask for my help. Without thinking I cleaned my hands on a towel, turned around and reached up to get the bowl, suddenly I realized what I had done.


I felt his body behind me as he grabbed the bowl over me, every muscle in my body tensed. He smelled like limes, I turned to face him, but he barely moved. The intensity in his eyes was pulling me out of reality, taking me 3 years back.

"I hope I wasn't interrupting" my mom said from the door, Lucas cleared his throat and backed away, handing me the bowl.

"No, mom, Lucas was just helping me reach for the bowl."

"Clearly..." She said and I threw her a look. Lucas continued on his task as I opened the bag of chips and placed them on the bowl. The smell of lime still in my nose. "I'm warning you, I don't want anyone sneaking into the house in the middle of the night while I'm gone."

Three things happened at the same time after that. My "Mom!", the knife hitting the cutting table and Lucas's "Fuck."

My mom and I turned to see him, suddenly blood started to come out of his hand, he quickly moved to the sink and put his hand under the water. My mom was quick too, she grabbed some paper towels and put them over the cut, the paper immediately started to turn red.

"Maya, take Lucas to my bathroom and clean his wound."


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